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World Champion (2023)

World Champion (2023)

Einar Karason
2023
128 pages
Fiction
Fiction Highlights

Years later, this fearless loner has run afoul of his home country’s government and sits in a Japanese prison, lonely and disgraced. Then benefactors from the island in the north take matters into their own hands and retrieve the world champion from halfway across the globe - but the escape to Iceland is bought at a high price.

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“The character study is masterfully well-written.”

GRETA EINARSDOTTIR, VIDSJA/ICELANDIC NATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE

“... a captivating narrative about a lost genius who is a lifelong prisoner of his rugged temperament, artistically composed by the storytelling master Einar Karason.”

BB NEWS

“Karason demonstrates literary levels beyond most Swedish literature with minimal means. ... The translator John Swedenmark has, as usual, worked wonders – it’s a masterful Swedish prose text.”

CHRISTIAN MUNTHE, SWEDEN

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